Hear from the managers ahead of Week 12 of the 23-24 Premier League season including Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp ahead of the big clash of the week between Manchester City and Liverpool
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00:00 Saturday is a big one, no doubt about that,
00:09 it's the strongest team in the world for the last years,
00:13 so that's a massive task for each football team in the world,
00:17 for us as well, but we will give it a try anyway.
00:20 If you compare us to Real Madrid, I think it's different,
00:22 Man City was never in the past,
00:26 the last 20, 30, 40 years was not contended as Liverpool.
00:32 But, yeah, the last decade, since I think I'm here and they are here.
00:38 The rivalry probably needs longer, the fans decide that and these kind of things,
00:42 but from a football point of view we needed some time to become a rival on the pitch,
00:48 and then we were that and lost still games,
00:51 and they lost against us and stuff like that, big things, Champions League,
00:54 quarter-final I think, so big games.
00:58 From a football point of view, definitely, yes.
01:02 They're a good outfit, I know there's been a lot of noise around Man United for a while now,
01:05 and the Ifs and Ands, and are they playing well, are they not?
01:07 But at the end of the day, they're top of the form table,
01:10 I think, in the last five, just in front of ourselves,
01:12 so they're obviously playing very well.
01:13 Well, certainly everyone in these parts was shocked,
01:16 and seemingly the wave of noise after that
01:20 seemed like most people in football and around football are shocked.
01:23 So obviously we're going to feel a bit aggrieved by that.
01:26 On the other hand, it doesn't change the focus.
01:30 The focus since I got here has been sorting things out on the pitch.
01:33 We are going to try to keep the momentum.
01:35 I think we have ahead an amazing game against Newcastle,
01:39 a very good team, and it's going to be tough
01:41 because the atmosphere of the Sunshine Park is always amazing.
01:46 And yes, we are going to try to keep the momentum.
01:48 It's true that already in a moment that we were building our way to play
01:55 and then the rest were on our side,
01:58 but I am a person that believes that we can keep the momentum
02:02 even if two weeks with no competition.
02:06 They've been good since I got there.
02:09 They've been really consistent with the way they play their football
02:14 and particularly over recent weeks, they've scored goals.
02:19 I feel they've got a great deal of belief,
02:21 so it's going to be a great test for us.
02:22 It's a really tough opponent, a really difficult place to be.
02:25 You look at the stats and as you said, all the clubs going there,
02:29 they make it extremely difficult.
02:31 They are really effective, really well coached,
02:34 and it will be a tough, tough match tomorrow.
02:36 Really proud to reach that number in a big club.
02:40 It's always difficult and that means that you do have to win a lot of games
02:43 and hopefully a lot of more positive things will come.
02:47 I hope that being desperate to win is something you always have.
02:51 I don't feel like you can ever go into a game
02:55 not being fully committed to winning games.
02:58 And I think I'd like to think that that's something that does really live in this club.
03:03 But OK, no game is going to be easy
03:05 and it's still the same mission for us to try and pick up three points.
03:08 [Music]